IMO these are neat and I wanted one as well. At the $99 tj/marshalls price or $39 Ross price, its worth checking out. As the OP states, I cant see how this would ever replace a normal glove. Maybe ahead of its time.. maybe it'll be one of those things in 10 yrs we think "what were we doing". It'll be cool to play catch with, but it just wont ever be a gamer for me. Everyone who wants will get a chance to check one out as there will be a ton dumped and now even ebay is catching up to the $99 price. I wonder if this will hurt the full MSRP ones and take sales away from them. Unless you care $300 worth for color, if you can 'check it out' for a 1/4th of the price I'd guess thats what everyone will do. Maybe its a bit gimmicky but people were paying $400 for it out of curiosity to a degree. Unless you REALLY like it, why go and pay MSRP now that you dont have to? I'd also imagine this dump has kinda pissed some folks off who did pay the big bucks...